Author Archives: Peter Vieth

A Fairfax County circuit judge has denied bond for a lawyer accused of helping her husband torture the managing partner of an Arlington law firm. Alecia Schmuhl had been fired from the firm about two weeks before she and her ...

The six-figure salary with a desk in a tall, downtown office building is a prize that seems ever more elusive for new law school graduates as the law firm legal market changes. The shrinking pool of high dollar entry-level legal ...

Virginia officials apparently have settled a class action lawsuit challenging medical care for women inmates at a state prison in Fluvanna County. Court records show that a ten-day trial beginning Dec. 1 was called off Nov. 25 based on notice ...

Timothy J. Heaphy will resign this year as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, he announced in a news release Nov. 24. Heaphy, 49, reportedly plans to become chair of a white collar defense practice at Hunton ...

Fairfax County Circuit Judge R. Terrence Ney died Nov. 24 after a prolonged illness, according to Chief Judge Dennis J. Smith of the Fairfax court. A former president of the Virginia Bar Association, Judge Ney served over the years as ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia quietly has opened the door a bit wider for out-of-state attorneys seeking to practice in Virginia without taking the bar examination. In a rule change last month, the court now allows lawyers from states that ...

House and Senate leaders have scheduled a new round of interviews for Virginia’s appellate courts on Dec. 12. It is not yet known who will be on the interview schedules. The Senate Courts of Justice Committee scheduled a 9 a.m. ...

A criminal defense lawyer who reportedly called a police detective’s proposed investigation plan “crazy” now faces a defamation lawsuit filed by the detective. The suit might send lawyers running to their files to see if defamation is covered in their ...

A Fairfax County judge refused to allow release of a man accused of conducting what was described as a torture session on Arlington attorney Leo Fisher. The Nov. 17 decision follows an earlier hearing in which bond was denied for ...

Leaders of the Virginia Senate Courts Committee have formally invited additional candidates to interview for as many as four vacancies on the state’s appellate courts. Sens. Thomas K. Norment Jr. and Mark D. Obenshain are inviting anyone who would like ...